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God’s Steadfast Love Endures

I am one who has seen affliction
    under the rod of God’s[a] wrath;(A)
he has driven and brought me
    into darkness without any light;
against me alone he turns his hand,
    again and again, all day long.(B)

He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
    he has broken my bones;(C)
he has besieged and enveloped me
    with bitterness and tribulation;
he has made me sit in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.(D)

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has put heavy chains on me;(E)
though I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;(F)
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.1 Heb his

19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
    is wormwood and gall!(A)
20 My soul continually thinks of it
    and is bowed down within me.(B)
21 But this I call to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:

22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[a]
    his mercies never come to an end;(C)
23 they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.(D)
24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    “therefore I will hope in him.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off